A feature-length documentary and social entrepreneurship effort to bring awareness to the story of globally renowned human rights activist Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network (GCN) in Zimbabwe, Africa.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Blog love for Tapestries

Tapestries is in post-production (a HUGE shout-out to Kent and the amazing team at Fat Box, and our editors Robin Chin and Vanessa Perez!)... feels like the beginning of the home stretch. From the first meeting with Betty Makoni in April 2007 and beginning of pre-production in Summer '07 to now feels like a long journey. Now the wait begins...

The ability to tell such a powerful and important story... we're excited, to say the least!

The blogosphere is excited too this week. Following is a snapshot of the collective bear hug the project and its director received:

Obviously, it’s a touchy subject to awaken the world to the story of two child abuse survivors fighting to expose these horrors, but Michealene has managed to ‘pay it forward’ with profound positivity by giving people the tools to engage at IndieGoGo, a cool social media film fundraising site for supporters like me to make a difference.

I’m so lame. Tapestries of Hopehas been on my to-blog list for a minute, but I hadn’t gotten around to it because it deserves much more than a rush job, and that’s where I am these days. But Amy Jussel at ShapingYouth has done the damn thing–and done it right.

On another positive note, Tapestries is the first movie to repeat online fundraising success on the new site IndieGoGo! Check out the project's page and get involved today. You can choose the movies that get made.

14 comments:

Virtual hugs and Congratulations on making it into post production/final phase...So exciting...Can't wait to list you on the Shaping Youth screening sidebar as a 'featured benefit screening!' Keep me apprised.

I'll post this news on our Changebloggers Facebook group to ignite some activist bloggers on behalf of this very worthy film. Talk about using the power of media for positive change!!! Rock on! --Amy

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"Tapestries of Hope" is a Documentary of Fresh Water Spigot, an independent film production company based in California. Our core team is: Writer/Producer/Director Michealene Cristini Risley, Producer Anand Chandrasekaran, Producer Ray Arthur Wang, and Executive Assistant Lauren Carara.
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For more information about "Tapestries of Hope", please email tapestriesofhope@gmail.com